This would support the theory that the peace plan is not a US-Russian initiative at all, but that its points were developed by Moscow and then sent to the US. This despite the fact that US President Donald Trump supports this plan and the US State Department claims that Americans co-created it.
These suspicions are published by the British newspaper “The Guardian”. According to journalist and Russia expert Luke Harding, some “stiff” and “awkward” wording in the peace proposal they may have been originally written in Russian. He points out two parts of the leaked design that sound unnatural in English but would be linguistically correct in Russian.
It refers, among other things, to the opinion that Russia will not attack neighboring countries in the future and NATO will not expand. Moreover, the proposals, which are very favorable to the Russian side, use the term “new territory” to refer to the occupied regions of Ukraine. This is a term that the American side would probably not use.
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In turn, the well-known investigative journalist Christo Grosew, who also has connections with the Russian secret services, wrote on X:
Coincidentally, I saw an early version of the “peace plan” about six months ago. It was a purely Russian concept, almost identical to what we see today (…).
However, this plan then included two additional points that are now missing. First, American financial assistance to Russia, and second, the alliance between Russia and the US against China. Grosew suspects that these two points were deliberately concealed by Moscow. His conclusion:
I am absolutely convinced that this is a Russian proposal and not a jointly developed one.
Even Prime Minister Donald Tusk wrote on X that “it would be good to know exactly who is the author of the plan and where it was created.”
Increasing chaos in the USA
So was the peace plan drawn up in Moscow? So far, it was assumed that the agreement was developed jointly by the Russian economic plenipotentiary Kirill Dmitriev and Steve Witkoff, special envoy of US President Donald Trump, during several weeks of confidential talks behind closed doors.
There are conflicting opinions on this subject in the United States. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio He rejected the accusation that it was the Kremlin's “wish list”. and claims that the author of the plan is the United States. However, Rubio is skeptical about this plan and reportedly informed US senators earlier that the document came from Russia.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to reporters in Geneva, Switzerland, November 23, 2025.MARTIAL TREZZINI / PAP
Just hours earlier, Republican Senator Mike Rounds made a public appearance at a Canadian security forum — interestingly, citing a phone conversation with Rubio:
We didn't write this plan, we didn't publish it – it was given to us and then disclosed.
Rubio “made it very clear” that the plan was “delivered” by a Russian representative, the Republican senator argued. “This is not our peace plan,” he stressed. In his opinion, the plan looks rather as if it had been written in Russian from the beginning.
Angus King, an independent senator, went even further. He claims that Rubio called the document “a wish list of Russians” and not a plan of the US government. According to King, Moscow passed on the proposal to Witkoff, and the United States merely passed it on to Ukraine.
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